Re: Does FAT32 restrict me to max filesize of 4GB?
From: Colin Barnhorst (colinbarharst(nojunk)_at_msn.com)
Date: 01/29/05
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:55:46 -0700
That does not sound like the best approach. Windows needs a generous amount
of free space for temp files and defragging. The less free space on a
drive, the longer things like defragging will take. What you are doing
sounds like you are a prime customer for an external usb2 or firewire drive
or a second internal drive. The sizes of your files suggests this.
I too encourage you to use the convert tool in XP. There are no reasons not
to that I know of and it is a high impact operation. Since you are
converting the C: drive, the conversion will take place at the next reboot.
The command is: convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs
-- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] "John" <nospam@plusnet.com> wrote in message news:rjonv0t3uuao2ohuqqm4qg9cfuk6j4toce@4ax.com... > "Vanguard" <vanguard_stealth@yahooNIXTHIS.com> wrote: > >>"John" <nospam@plusnet.com> wrote in message >>news:npfnv0tsbkgokf8j1350hu13877nv04d1a@4ax.com... >>> "Ken Blake" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote: >>>>By the way, to convert to NTFS, you use the CONVERT command. But >>>>first read http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm because there's an >>>>issue regarding cluster size that isn't obvious. >>> >>> >>> Thanks to both Ken and Rick - excellent, valuable advice which I will >>> certainly take except that because I have become comfortable with >>> PartitionMagic, I'll do the conversion with that. I presume it won't >>> undo the good done by bootitng. >> >> >>I also have PartitionMagic. The convert.exe program included in Windows >>XP is what you should use to convert the partition's file system from >>FAT32 to NTFS. PM might work but it is not the official converter >>program (and I have seen PM fail during a conversion), plus you might >>have a tool old version of PM. > > Version 7 - I guess the weight of advice is against using it although > I have never had a failure with PM. > > Happily, the discussion has made me realise that I have another > alternative. I can use PM to make me a new partition (I have 29 gigs > free in my XP partition) in NTFS, say 15gigs in size. That will give > me the room to manipulate 4.7 gig files - what do you think?
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